Comments on: Jarhead… http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/2009/09/05/jarhead/ the blog of author Ricardo Pinto Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ricardo http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/2009/09/05/jarhead/comment-page-1/#comment-485 ricardo Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:49:49 +0000 http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/?p=555#comment-485 "sublimated" is right. I wonder if it isn't the case that our familiarity with 'war' is set up by our upbringing, where conflict is endemic, often in one's family, so that, as we grow up, the background of violence and struggle naturally maps to the wars occurring in the 'real' world - that is the world our 'inner' world grows into...? “sublimated” is right. I wonder if it isn’t the case that our familiarity with ‘war’ is set up by our upbringing, where conflict is endemic, often in one’s family, so that, as we grow up, the background of violence and struggle naturally maps to the wars occurring in the ‘real’ world – that is the world our ‘inner’ world grows into…?

]]> By: Athena http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/2009/09/05/jarhead/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Athena Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:25:52 +0000 http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/?p=555#comment-481 Well put. War seems such a common place thing - almost a sublimated reality we expect to be there. Joanna Smith Rakhof's 'A Fortunate Age' talks about 4 friends who graduated from university and developed their careers in the window period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 - the window where there was no war in North America's eyes. So when you think about it, we've all grown up with one war or another in the past 200+ centuries at least... Well put.

War seems such a common place thing – almost a sublimated reality we expect to be there. Joanna Smith Rakhof’s ‘A Fortunate Age’ talks about 4 friends who graduated from university and developed their careers in the window period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 – the window where there was no war in North America’s eyes. So when you think about it, we’ve all grown up with one war or another in the past 200+ centuries at least…

]]> By: ricardo http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/2009/09/05/jarhead/comment-page-1/#comment-469 ricardo Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:55:49 +0000 http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/?p=555#comment-469 it has been argued to me that it lacks emotional impact... and this may well be so... in which case it is not like Full Metal Jacket or Platoon... On the other hand, since it is all about alienation and brain washing and about people not feeling anything... then it seems to me that this emotional numbness is just right... it has been argued to me that it lacks emotional impact… and this may well be so… in which case it is not like Full Metal Jacket or Platoon… On the other hand, since it is all about alienation and brain washing and about people not feeling anything… then it seems to me that this emotional numbness is just right…

]]> By: Rem http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/2009/09/05/jarhead/comment-page-1/#comment-464 Rem Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:01:28 +0000 http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/?p=555#comment-464 So I guess it's sort of the Full Metal Jacket (or Platoon) of this time?... Because of how the movie was marketed I'd sort of assumed it was a run-of-the-mill war movie, but in light of this I'll have to keep an eye out for it. So I guess it’s sort of the Full Metal Jacket (or Platoon) of this time?… Because of how the movie was marketed I’d sort of assumed it was a run-of-the-mill war movie, but in light of this I’ll have to keep an eye out for it.

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